TAXES: Taking Aim at a 'Disgrace'

During his campaign, Jimmy Carter repeatedly
condemned the U.S. tax system as "a disgrace to the human race."
Indeed, the system was such a mess, Carter said, that he would need a
full year in the White House to study how to reform it. Yet by last
week, after barely five months in office, the Carter Administration had
put together a smoothly functioning team that expects to have a
comprehensive tax reform ready by the end of summer.

Though no final decisions have yet been made, the task force's goals are
clear enough: making the tax code simpler and more...